THE Day LOVE❤️Defeated Death!

GOOD GOOD GOOD Friday!!!…..The most difficult, traumatic, excruciatingly painful day for JESUS was absolutely the most life-changing, freedom-giving, love-filled day that we as believers in Jesus have ever known!

This was THE day that LOVE DEFEATED death! Not only physical death, but any death we all experience in this life here on earth. The death of dreams, relationships, expectations of what your life was supposed to be like! We’ve all experienced the death of something that left us at best discouraged and quite possibly devastated! But on THE Day known as Good Friday, the GREATEST expression of LOVE ever known, SHOUTED in the face of death and snatched away it’s power to discourage us, defeat us and crush us!  We need only BELIEVE and then RECEIVE it!

It’s THE Day we got direct access, 24/7, to the very THRONE of GOD, assuring us that His ear is inclined completely to our cries, groans, bargaining, pleading and prayers! Hebrews 4:16, Matthew 27:51

It’s THE Day we received the unrepayable gift of a life eternal, forever and ever and ever and ever……with our Creator, Redeemer and Spirit of the Living God! John 3:16, Titus 1:2

It’s THE Day that purchased our FORGIVENESS for every sin we have or will commit and all it takes is our confession! Romans 5:8, 1John 1:9

It’s THE Day that fear was defeated by a LOVE like no other! Romans 8:15, 1John 4:18

It’s THE Day that allows us to be blessed with every spiritual blessing and by His divine power, be given EVERYTHING we need to live a godly life! Ephesians 1:3, 2Peter 1:3

It’s THE Day that we received provision for our peace, our healing, our freedom, our deliverance, wisdom, grace, mercy, justification, sanctification and EVERTHING we could possibly need! Jesus said: “IT IS FINISHED! Isaiah 53, John 19

I truly could go on and on and on about the incredible benefits and blessings that the children of the Living God received on that day that LOVE defeated death! That day our Blessed Saviour WILLINGLY and even JOYFULLY chose to suffer the most excruciating and painful death on the cross, being beaten and scourged to the point of being unrecognizable!

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THE day when He hung on OUR cross!! The one we should have had to suffer on because it was OUR sin that caused our Abba Father to CHOOSE to send His ONLY SON to this earth to DIE so WE. COULD. LIVE!! OH WHAT A SAVIOUR! ❤️

What drew Him there to that cross? It was YOU precious son and daughter! His indescribable LOVE for us drove Him tenaciously to that cross with a deep desire to KNOW you and be there for you through every trial, tribulation and death you experience!

Just go ahead and insert your name here…

My JESUS willingly suffered and died for _________ , because He loves me with an everlasting and unconditional love and passionately desires an intimate and everlasting relationship with ME!

YOU ARE WORTH IT TO HIM! I AM WORTH IT TO HIM!

TO HIM WE. ARE. WORTH. EVERY PAINFUL THORN ON HIS HEAD, EVERY LASH HE RECEIVED THAT RIPPED HIS BACK TO SHREDS, EVERY TIME SOMEONE MOCKED HIM AND SPAT UPON HIM AND BEAT HIM WITH THEIR FISTS AND EVERY LAST DROP OF BLOOD UNTIL HE TOOK HIS VERY LAST BREATH!

Oh dearest ones, this is not hype or exaggeration! In fact our meager words and vocabulary can not even come close to describing the magnitude of His suffering and the deep deep love for you and me that compelled our Father to send His beloved son to us to die! GOD being God could have just given us eternal life and forgiveness of sins and just forgotten about the BIG sin in the garden of Eden that caused death and sin to rule and reign, but he knew the world would never fully comprehend the great love He has for every person ever created, unless He sacrificed His most precious gift, His only begotten son!

And our beautiful JESUS!! He could have chosen not to do this! Oh He thought about it it the garden when He compelled His besties to PLEASE stay awake with Him! Oh how He needed their love and encouragement as He was in such anguish that He literally sweat drops of blood! But it was late and they were tired from walking all those dusty roads these past three years, the throngs of needy people coming at them day and night, desperate to be healed and delivered, and then there was that Last Supper together where one of their very own turned on their beloved Master! So much stress, weariness, intensity, so much drama, so much confusion and so many unanswered questions! And so……… they slept.

I’m thinking back on my life to the many many times I’ve been just like those disciples! Because of all the distractions, drama and stresses of life, I’ve chosen to shut her down, retreat, deny, ignore and just be asleep at the wheel! I’ve known the gifts God has blessed me with and the assignments He has given me and yet I’ve missed it many times! Times when He’s really needed me to be JESUS with skin on to someone who was hurting! But I was too distracted and self-absorbed!

I was shopping one day when the Lord spoke to my heart as I looked at a young mom pushing her toddler through the store. He said “go and tell her that she is a wonderful mother! And tell her I said so”! Well I looked closer at that mom and saw a happy, well dressed, beautiful woman! I immediately reasoned in my blonde brain that she must already know that she’s a great mom and surely has no need to hear that! And so I shopped on! That was probably 8-10 years ago! I think about that momma often and wonder what my words of love and encouragement, which would have been straight from heaven, would have done in her life and heart that day! I know we have all had those nudges! My prayer is that we are not like those disciples who let their Lord down when He needed them the most!

In looking at ALL the amazing benefits the CROSS of CHRIST brings us, and I did not even list them ALL, for me the BIGGEST benefit has been death to the spirit of fear that controlled and tormented my life from the time I was young! I grew up with a grandma whom I adored, but she constantly told horrific stories of people who had these terrible diseases and died! She didn’t mean to bring fear to me but because I am very empathetic, I took these stories to heart and they deeply affected me!

This began MANY years of walking in fear that these same diseases would come upon me. And surely the bad family genetics would visit me and I would end up with these same diseases that have been passed down for generations! Then one day about 10 years ago, my precious, godly, prayer partner, SuzAnna, asked me a question. So what is the worse thing that can happen to you if you were to get a disease and die? I said well I would be with my JESUS for eternity! She then said that I needed to tell satan that I was no longer going to fear disease or death because the worst thing that could happen is I’d get to see JESUS face to face! I also needed to tell the enemy that I was going to TRUST God to take care of me and keep me until THE appointed day I am to be with Him! I have to admit I really didn’t want to tell satan that I wasn’t afraid to die, I thought he just might take me up on it, but I knew I had to do it! My precious friend actually had me repeat after her since I didn’t think I could muster up the words!

And…… Oh My Goodness! I think a GIANT lightbulb actually went off over my head that surely could be seen for miles and I’m pretty sure I heard a choir of angels singing as years and years of the weight and torment of fear was replaced with a revelation that my God LOVES me PERFECTLY and HE can be trusted with my life! All because of THE Day LOVE defeated death, fear, sin, shame, rejection, addiction, sickness, guilt and EVERYTHING that causes us pain and ultimately affects our relationship with The One Who LOVES us MOST!

Oh precious ones! Let me be that friend to share with you the TRUTH about the CROSS and the LOVE that was so vividly expressed there for YOU! Are you struggling with fear, rejection, loneliness, hopelessness, addiction, guilt, shame, sickness, anger, a broken marriage, a prodigal child………

KNOW that you have a God Who is:

• YOUR SAVIOR
• YOUR HEALER
• YOUR REDEEMER
• YOUR DELIVERER
• YOUR CREATOR
• YOUR PROVIDER
• YOUR COUNSELOR
• YOUR PRINCE OF PEACE
• YOUR STRONGTOWER
• YOUR PROTECTOR
• YOUR WISDOM
• YOUR STRENGTH
• YOUR SHEPHERD
• YOUR ROCK
• YOUR SHIELD
• YOUR COMFORTER
• YOUR CORNERSTONE
• YOUR BREAD OF LIFE
• YOUR LIVING WATER
• YOUR GREAT HIGH PRIEST
• YOUR ADVOCATE
• YOUR BREATH OF LIFE
• YOUR HUSBAND 
• YOUR INTERCESSOR 
• YOUR EVERLASTING FATHER
• YOUR MEDIATOR
• YOUR MERCIFUL GOD
• YOUR GRACIOUS GOD
• YOUR FORGIVING GOD
• YOUR LOVING FATHER/ABBA
• YOUR FRIEND

WOW! That is one AMAZING and INCREDIBLE list! One attribute for every day of the month!😊 But this is only a partial list! I can promise you, that no matter what it is you are battling, struggling with or going through, you can find Him right in the middle of it waiting to be your SAVIOR, HEALER, REDEEMER, DELIVERER……..because YOU. ARE. WORTH IT! And oh my, He LOVES YOU SO!

BEAUTIFUL, LOVING LORD GOD, WHAT COULD WE POSSIBLY DO TO REPAY YOU FOR THE UNFATHOMABLE GIFT OF YOUR PRECIOUS SON JESUS! NOT ONE THING, YOU SAY! BUT I KNOW WHAT GIVES YOU GREAT JOY IS WHEN WE RECEIVE EVERY BENEFIT THAT THE GREAT SACRIFICE OF YOUR SON PURCHASED FOR US WITH EVERY DROP OF HIS BLOOD! FATHER, FORGIVE US FOR LIGHTLY ESTEEMING THESE PRECIOUS, COSTLY GIFTS AND HELP US TO BELIEVE THEN RECEIVE ALL THAT YOU HAVE PROVIDED FOR US TO LIVE THE ABUNDANT LIFE YOU SO YEARN FOR US TO HAVE! HELP US TO TRUST YOU WITH ALL WE ARE, ALL WE HAVE AND ALL WE GO THROUGH BECAUSE WE KNOW YOU HAVE PROMISED TO NEVER EVER NO NEVER LEAVE US OR FORSAKE US! WE SURRENDER OUR FEARS, OUR GUILT, OUR SINS AND SORROWS TO YOU FOR WE KNOW THAT YOUR LOVE DEFEATED ALL THESE THINGS THAT GOOD GOOD GOOD FRIDAY! WITH ALL OF OUR LOVE! IN THE PRECIOUS NAME OF JESUS! 

Love ALWAYS,

Tara

P. S. I think I see countless giant light bulbs popping up all over the place and can hear beautiful choirs of angels singing as precious saints run to the Cross to embrace EVERY blessing and benefit that was purchased because of LOVE!

It’s Friday!!!! But Sunday’s comin!👏🎁